Cider-mill.



PATBNTED AUG. 2, 1904.

A. C. BURNER.

CIDER MILL.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 8. 1903.

H0 MODEL.

affozncq UNITED STATES Patented August 2, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CIDER-MILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,663, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed August 8, 1903. Serial No. 168,837. 3T0 model.)

To fL/Z whom it may concern.-

Beitknown that I. ALLEN CRAGE BURNER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cass, in the county of Pocahontas and State of WV est Virginia, have invented a new and useful Cider-Mill, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in cider-mills.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of cider-mills, and to increase their strength, durability, and officiency, and to provide a simple and comparatively inexpensive one capable of grinding apples positively to any degree of fineness and adapted to discharge both the juice and the pomace at the bottom of the mill.

A further object of the invention is to provide a cider-mill of this character which will admit of a ready separation of the parts when it is desired to clean the same and which will enable the parts to be quickly assembled for operation.

'ith these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details of construction within the scope of the claims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of themvention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a cider-press constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4: is a similar view on the line L at of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the top of the easing and the hopper. Fig. 6 is a perspective view showing the lower face of the top of the casing. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the bottom of the casing.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates the body of a casing, prol vided with a top 2. and having a horizontal chamber of circular form which receives a rotary disk 3, carrying a series of verticallymovable grinding devices or teeth 4, and the latter are adapted to operate on apples contained within a hopper 5, which is mounted upon the top of the casing. The body of the casing is provided at its lower face with dcpending supporting-feet 6, which hold the bottom of the casing above the supportingsurface upon which the cider-mill is mounted to permit a ready escape of the juice and the pomace, as hereinafter explained. The body of the casing is cylindrical and is provided at its periphery with an annular wall, and the top of the casing has a depending annular flange 7, which fits over the upper edge of the wall of the body. The top is detachably secured on the body by means of loops 8, hinged at their lower ends to the body and arranged to swing upward into engagement with lugs 9 of the top, whereby the latter is firmly held on the body. The upper portions of the loops are maintained in engagement with the lugs 9 of the top of the casing by means of pins 10 or other suitable fastening devices, which fit in perforations of the lugs, as clearly shown in Fig. 4c. The loops,-which may be hinged to the body of the casing in any suitable manner, are preferably engaged with approximately L-shaped lugs 11 thereof, and the depending portions of the lugs and the adjacent portions of the body of the casing are pierced by horizontal pins 12 or other suitable fastening devices. The depending portions of the L-shaped lugs 11 are spaced from the body of the casing and permit the loops to be drawn outward sufficiently to clear the lugs 9 of the top of the casing when it is desired to separate the parts to afford access to the interior of the casing for cleaning the mill or for any other purpose.

The top and bottom of the casing are provided with suitable bearings for the reception of a vertical shaft 13, which is interlocked with the rotary disk 3 by means of a polygonal portion 14, which is arranged within a corresponding opening 15 of the disk. The lower end of the shaft 13 is successively reduced, and the openings of the top of the casing, the disk, and the bottom of the casing are decreased in size to correspond: to the lower portion .of the shaft. The shaft is designed to be operated by a sweep-lever, but any other suitable means may be employed for operating the mill, as will be readily understood.

The rotary disk is provided with an annular series of radial slots 16, in which are arranged the vertically-movable grinding clevices or teeth 4, which are operated by cams of the bottom of the casing. The bottom of the casing is provided with oppositely-disposed approximately semicircular grooves 17, which decrease in depth from the middle to the'ends and which form oppositely-disposed inclined faces or cams, a pair of inclined faces being located at diametrically opposite points, as clearly shown in Fig. 7 of the drawings. The top of the casing is provided at opposite sides with apertures 18, and itslower face is provided with opposite grooves 19, corresponding to the grooves of the bottom of the casing and forming inclined top walls, which are disposed parallel with the inclined faces of the bottom of the casing, whereby inclined ways are provided for the passage of. the vertically-movable grinding devices or teeth 4 of the rotary disk. These top and bottom grooves, which are concentric with the walls of the disk-receiving chamber of the casing, are located between the center and the periphery of the rotary disk. The ends of the grooves of the bottom of the casing are located at the centers of the apertures of the top of the casing, and the highest points of the inclined faces of the bottom of the casing are thus brought directly beneath the said apertures, whereby the grinding devices or teeth are caused to project upward from the upper face of the rotary disk at the said apertures for engaging the apples,which are ground by the verticallymovableteeth. The apples, which are ground by the teeth, are carried by the same into the inclined ways of the casing, andthe partiallyground material is forced through the disk and around the periphery thereof to the bot-- tially-ground material, whereby the same is completely ground and reduced to aj elly. The bottom of the casing is provided with a transverse series of slots 22, forming dischargeopenings for the escape of the juice and the pomace, which is forced outward through the said discharge-opening by the rotary disk.

The casing, the disk, and the teeth are designed to be constructed of, cast metal or other suitable material, and the hopper, which is cylindrical, may be cast integral with'the top of the casing, or it may be secured to the same in any desired manner.

It will be seen that the cider-mill is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it is strong and durable, and that it is adapted to positively grind the apples operated on. Furthermore, it will be clear that the juice and pomace are both discharged at the bottom of the cider-mill and that the casing may be readily opened to afford access to the interior thereof when it is desired to clean the mill.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a mill of the class described, the combination of a casing provided with approximately horizontal circular ways having inclined top and bottom walls,and a horizontallydisposed rotary element mounted in the casing and provided with vertically-movable grinding devices arranged in the ways and. actuated by the inclined walls thereof, substantially as described.

2. In a mill of the class described, the combination of a casing having a horizontal circular chamber, a horizontal rotary element operating within the casing, the latter being provided with curved ways located between the center and the periphery of the said rotary element and having inclined walls, and a series of grinding devices carried by the rotary element and located between the center and the periphery thereof and actuated by the said inclined walls, substantially as described.

3. In a mill of the class described, the connbination of a casing having approximately horizontal ways provided with inclined top and bottom Walls, a horizontally-disposed rotary element operating in the casing and provided with slots, and vertically-movable teeth located in the slots of the rotary element and arranged to be engaged by the inclined faces of the ways, whereby the teeth are moved vertically when the said element is rotated, substantially as described.

4. In a mill of the class described, the combination of a casing provided with apertures and having approximately horizontal ways provided with inclined faces extending upward at the said apertures, a horizontally-disposed rotary element arranged in the casing, and vertically-movable teeth carried by the element and arranged in the ways, whereby they are actuated by the inclined faces of the casing, substantially as described.

5. In a mill of the class described, the combination of a casing provided at its top with apertures and having a horizontal chamber, a-

horizontally-disposed rotary element provided with apertures and arranged within the chamber of the casing, the latter being provided with circular passages. or ways located be- ITO IIS

tween the center and the periphery of the rotary element and having inclined portions forming cams, and vertically-movable teeth mounted in the apertures of the rotary element and operating in the passages or ways and actuated by the cams, substantially as described.

6. In a mill of the class described, the combination of a casing having a circular chamber, a horizontal rotary element arranged within the casing, the latter being provided between the center and periphery of the element with interior circular cams and having a bottom grinding-face also located between the center and periphery of the rotary element, and grinding devices carried by the rotary element and actuated by the said cams, substantially as described.

7. In a mill of the class described, the combination of a casing having circular passages the walls of which form cams, said casing being provided with a bottom grinding-face, a rotary element arranged within the casing and cooperating with the grinding-face, and teeth mounted on and carried by the rotary element and actuated by the cams, substantially as described.

8. In a mill of the class described, the combination of a casing having circular ways the walls of which form cams, said casing being provided at its bottom within the space inclosed by the ways with a grinding-face, a rotary element arranged within the casing and cooperating with the grinding-face, and movable grinding devices carried by the rotary element and actuated by the cams, substantially as described.

9. In a mill of the class described, the combination of a casing having approximately horizontal circular ways the walls of which form cams, said casing being provided at its bottom with discharge-openings and having grinding-faces at opposite sides thereof, a horizontally-disposed rotary element operating in the casing and provided with apertures, and grinding devices arranged in the apertures and engaged by the said cams, substantially as described.

10. In a mill of the class described, the combination of a casing composed of upper and lower portions provided with projecting lugs arranged in pairs, one of the lugs of each pair being L-shaped, loops embracing the lugs, horizontal fastening, devices piercing the L-shaped lugs and confining the loops on the same, and upright fastening devices mounted on the other lugs and retaining the loops in engagement with the same, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALLEN GRAG-E BURNER.

itnesses:

C. L. BURNER, E. D. BURNER. 

